Roles: Father, Ox Father (Puppet), Ox

• Opened each show with unique, improvised audience interaction

• Kept a straight face while sharing the stage with some of the funniest actors in Nashville

•. Used a rod puppet to sing, dance, and mourn the death of his wife

• Inserted improvised puns and references based on names given by the audience

Roles: Ghost of Christmas Future, Dick Wilkins, Caroler, Fiddler

• Operated a 40lb stalkabout apparatus that made me 10ft tall

• While wearing said apparatus, also flew 15ft above the stage while blinded by fabric

• Sang and danced to choral arrangements of Christmas hymns

• Provided live accompaniment with my violin, including a fiddle duet I helped arrange

Roles: Pinocchio, Duloc Dancer, Knight, Rat Tapper

• Had the opportunity to wear the National Tour costumes

• Grew my nose on command twice in Act I alone

• Tap danced with a tail and weighty rats on each foot

• Developed the octaves-above-my-own voice without a single music rehearsal

Roles: Spongebob (u/s), Electric Skate 1, Old Man Jenkins, Sardine, Sea Anemone

• Sang and danced on plywood while wearing roller skates

• Sang and danced outdoors in 100-degree heat while wearing a sweater and wig

• Learned to tut while singing gospel, dancing, and occasionally playing the tambourine

• Quick-changed into a 10-piece costume in less than a minute before a big tap number

Roles: Bill (Sure Thing), Swift (Words, Words, Words)

• Performed each one-act after just two rehearsals and one day of tech

• Quickly memorized slight variations of the same first date relived repeatedly

• Delivered a Shakespearean monologue and had a mental breakdown… as a monkey

• Utilized a series of trampolines to jump a solid 8 feet in the air without padding

Role: Christopher Boone

• Quickly adjusted to a convincing RP/London British dialect

• Delivered a monologue while walking on my hands

• Utilizing Frantic Assembly techniques, flew around the stage supported by my castmates

• Carefully portrayed neurodivergency honestly while avoiding stereotype

Role: Scarecrow

• Due to the Nashville-ization of our production, used a Southern dialect akin to Piedmont

• Provided violin accompaniment, including fiddling between my own sung phrases

• Entrusted to teach all choreography to our replacement Tinman during his put-in rehearsal

• Learned the Charleston and danced the Jitterbug while wearing burlap

Roles: Otto (u/s), Lt. Richter (u/s), Swing, Workman, Jewish Woman

• Learned both Dutch and German dialects for this role (though with a British base)

• Swung in for Otto without a put-in rehearsal when the actor got Covid

• Performed as Otto for over a week alongside Nan Gurley, John Schuck, and Carrie Tillis

• Continued as Otto during the SAG-AFTRA filming—movie was released in August 2023